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Heart Complications During Childbirth

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SOURCES: 2008 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Salpy Pamboukian, MD, Cardiologist, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ala.

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Five months after Lindy Jones gave birth to her son, Matthew, she became critically ill. At first doctors thought she had pneumonia. But tests revealed something worse.

Lindy Jones, Mother:

Well, the doctor grabbed my mama's arm and said I wouldn't leave just yet. She's having a massive heart attack.

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A blood clot formed in a major artery of her heart - a rare complication of childbirth.

Salphy Pamboukian, MD, Cardiologist, University of Alabama at Birmingham:

The heart muscle was really unable to pump, keep up with the pumping requirements and she went into cardiogenic shock.

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Doctors quickly implanted a balloon pump in her heart to keep her alive. But there was more trouble brewing.

Salphy Pamboukian, MD, Cardiologist, University of Alabama at Birmingham:

Her circulation was so poor that she wasn't really getting enough blood flow to her legs.

Lindy Jones, Mother:

They, um, that's when they took my leg.

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When Lindy woke up, she discovered doctors had to amputate her right leg below the knee. Later, the heart pump was replaced with a left ventricular assist device or l-vad. It keeps her failing heart ticking while she waits for a new one.

Salphy Pamboukian, MD, Cardiologist, University of Alabama at Birmingham:

We never know when a donor organ is gonna become available, so if somebody's so ill that we don't think they're gonna' make it to the heart transplant, we use the LVAD to bridge them to that and we call that bridge to transplantation.

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Matthew was almost a year old by the time an anxious Lindy finally got home from the hospital.

Lindy Jones, Mother:

He's absolutely wonderful. I can't, I don't know how I'd do it if he was anything else.

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And despite the obstacles she faces every day, Lindy's determined to enjoy motherhood. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.

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